Answer:
He was beaten so badly he almost died by a gang of Socs, and then Ponnybooy and Jonny try to rescue kids from a burning building, and a beam that was on fire fell on Jonny.
Explanation:
I read the book.
“He talks” is a sentence fragment. The word he talks doesn’t show anything. If the sentence was like “He talks like a girl”, it’ll be a complete sentence.